Re: can't upgrade - catch-22

2007-10-27 Thread Keith Seyffarth
On FreeBSD before 6.2 ports system unfortunately can not set default X11BASE by itself so please help it a bit by setting X11BASE=${LOCALBASE} in make.conf. On the other hand, if you do wish to use non-default X11BASE, please set variable USE_NONDEFAULT_X11BASE. However, even if I

Re: can't upgrade - catch-22

2007-10-27 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Friday 26 October 2007, Keith Seyffarth said: On FreeBSD before 6.2 ports system unfortunately can not set default X11BASE by itself so please help it a bit by setting X11BASE=${LOCALBASE} in make.conf. On the other hand, if you do wish to use non-default X11BASE, please set

Re: can't upgrade - catch-22

2007-10-27 Thread Daniel Marsh
On 10/27/07, Keith Seyffarth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On FreeBSD before 6.2 ports system unfortunately can not set default X11BASE by itself so please help it a bit by setting X11BASE=${LOCALBASE} in make.conf. On the other hand, if you do wish to use non-default X11BASE, please

Re: Portupgrade used to be fun!!!

2007-10-27 Thread Antonio Arredondo
I used to have issues with portupgrade as well. I traced my problem to using the wrong portupgrade. I have been using portupgrade for several months without an issue ( except the Xorg 7 transition ). Make sure to use /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portupgrade and not

Re: Portupgrade used to be fun!!!

2007-10-27 Thread Frank Staals
Antonio Arredondo wrote: I used to have issues with portupgrade as well. I traced my problem to using the wrong portupgrade. I have been using portupgrade for several months without an issue ( except the Xorg 7 transition ). Make sure to use /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portupgrade and not

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Harddisk encryption with geli: key's block size

2007-10-27 Thread Thomas Hobbes
Hi, I want to encrypt my mobile computer's data-partition with a passphrase, 128 bit AES and HMAC/MD5. A lot of people use different block sizes to generate keys with dd. There are examples with block sizes of 64, 32k and 128k in geli's man-page, but I couldn't find out why they were used.

pkgdb -Ff and autoconf question...how do I respond?

2007-10-27 Thread Dino Vliet
Dear FreeBSD folks, I want to upgrade my ports but as I'm following the /usr/ports/UPDATING file, it advised me to run the command pkgdb -Ff. When I do I get this: pkgdb -Ff --- Checking the package registry database Duplicated origin: devel/autoconf261 - autoconf-2.53_4 autoconf-2.61_2

Re: Harddisk encryption with geli: key's block size

2007-10-27 Thread RW
On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 12:40:00 +0200 Thomas Hobbes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I want to encrypt my mobile computer's data-partition with a passphrase, 128 bit AES and HMAC/MD5. A lot of people use different block sizes to generate keys with dd. There are examples with block sizes of 64,

OpenSSL upgrade.

2007-10-27 Thread Grant Peel
Hiall, Due to a security issue, I need to upgrade my OpenSSL version. What is the correct method? ports? package? a CVSUP of the whole server source? Here is the version I have now (on freebsd 6.2) const# openssl version OpenSSL 0.9.7e-p1 25 Oct 2004 const# TIA, -Grant

CPU usage 100% but no process hogging CPU

2007-10-27 Thread Gunther Mayer
Hi there, I'm having some capacity issues on the FreeBSD 6.2/Core 2 Duo/2GB RAM server that I manage. For quite a few days now it constantly shows load averages of around 1 and a CPU usage of around 100%. Yet summing up the CPU usage of the individual processes running I hardly ever get to

Re: CPU usage 100% but no process hogging CPU

2007-10-27 Thread Bruce Cran
Gunther Mayer wrote: Hi there, I'm having some capacity issues on the FreeBSD 6.2/Core 2 Duo/2GB RAM server that I manage. For quite a few days now it constantly shows load averages of around 1 and a CPU usage of around 100%. Yet summing up the CPU usage of the individual processes running I

Re: CPU usage 100% but no process hogging CPU

2007-10-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
Gunther Mayer wrote: Hi there, I'm having some capacity issues on the FreeBSD 6.2/Core 2 Duo/2GB RAM server that I manage. For quite a few days now it constantly shows load averages of around 1 and a CPU usage of around 100%. Yet summing up the CPU usage of the individual processes running I

Re: Rebuilding world

2007-10-27 Thread Bruce Cran
Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: Roberth Sjonøy wrote: Hello, i am updating FreeBSD to 8-CURRENT, and im at the 23.4.1 The Canonical Way to Update Your System part of the handbook, when running make buildworld, this occours: Before anyone gets on my friends case he is using 6.2 (i386) with the

Re: pkgdb -Ff and autoconf question...how do I respond?

2007-10-27 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Dino Vliet wrote: Dear FreeBSD folks, I want to upgrade my ports but as I'm following the /usr/ports/UPDATING file, it advised me to run the command pkgdb -Ff. When I do I get this: pkgdb -Ff --- Checking the package registry database Duplicated origin: devel/autoconf261 - autoconf-2.53_4

Re: Portupgrade used to be fun!!!

2007-10-27 Thread E. J. Cerejo
P.U.Kruppa wrote: On Sat, 27 Oct 2007, E. J. Cerejo wrote: Not anymore! Every time I cvsup my ports tree and I see all of those ports that need to be updated my belly aches and that's because portupgrade doesn't work the way it used to work. It is not fun any more! Always an issue, either

Re: Storage cluster with FreeBSD

2007-10-27 Thread Ivan Voras
Norberto Meijome wrote: indeed. Well, as I said in OP, similar to what Lustre offers. I don't know what Lustre has so my response might or might not be what you need... Let's see : what I am after is a way to hook up a few computers ( say, 6) with a few HD (say, 6 x 400 GB), and setup

Re: OpenLDAP 2.3/pam_ldap/nss_ldap: not working in FreeBSD 7.0-PRE!

2007-10-27 Thread O. Hartmann
Alexandre Biancalana wrote: On 10/26/07, O. Hartmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: playing with ldapsearch gets results as expected. Doing ldapsearch witch -D and dn of the admin results in the whole DIT as expected, accessing the DIT with uid=user,ou=users,dc=... the same. Accessing LDAP server

Re: Portupgrade used to be fun!!!

2007-10-27 Thread Jona Joachim
On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 00:12:49 -0400 E. J. Cerejo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not anymore! Every time I cvsup my ports tree and I see all of those ports that need to be updated my belly aches and that's because portupgrade doesn't work the way it used to work. It is not fun any more! Always

Re: Portupgrade used to be fun!!!

2007-10-27 Thread Bart Silverstrim
Jona Joachim wrote: On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 00:12:49 -0400 E. J. Cerejo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not anymore! Every time I cvsup my ports tree and I see all of those ports that need to be updated my belly aches and that's because portupgrade doesn't work the way it used to work. It is not fun

Re: 7.0 and 6.3

2007-10-27 Thread Byung-Hee HWANG
Hi Kris, On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 09:17 +0200, Kris Kennaway wrote: David J Brooks wrote: Bill Moran wrote: Note also that a ports freeze is starting soon for 7.0 and 6.3 release. What are the differences between 6.3 and 7.0? Which should be considered the standard upgrade path from

Re: Portupgrade used to be fun!!!

2007-10-27 Thread Adam J Richardson
Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: P.U.Kruppa wrote: On Sat, 27 Oct 2007, E. J. Cerejo wrote: Not anymore! Every time I cvsup my ports tree and I see all of those ports that need to be updated my belly aches and that's because portupgrade doesn't work the way it used to work. It is not fun any more!

project management software for freebsd?

2007-10-27 Thread zbigniew szalbot
Hello, I am looking for recommendation of software which could be installed from ports and which would help us register new ideas, be able to see if they have been started/completed, etc. I did have a look at Horde but this is not what I am looking for. I do not want a simple task list.

Re: Portupgrade used to be fun!!!

2007-10-27 Thread Chris
On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 00:12:49 -0400 E. J. Cerejo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not anymore! Every time I cvsup my ports tree and I see all of those ports that need to be updated my belly aches and that's because portupgrade doesn't work the way it used to work. It is not fun any more! Always

hardware not recognized

2007-10-27 Thread Robert Huff
Recently, I replaced the NICs on a machine (old card was slow and throwing errors). Per good reviews, I went with Intel. However: the card is not recognized on boot, and I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:12:0: class=0x02 card=0x118a8086 chip=0x10798086 rev=0x03 hdr=0x00 vendor

Re: hardware not recognized

2007-10-27 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 12:22:21PM -0400, Robert Huff wrote: Recently, I replaced the NICs on a machine (old card was slow and throwing errors). Per good reviews, I went with Intel. However: the card is not recognized on boot, and I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:12:0:

Re: project management software for freebsd?

2007-10-27 Thread Bahman M.
On 2007-10-27 zbigniew szalbot wrote: I am looking for recommendation of software which could be installed from ports and which would help us register new ideas, be able to see if they have been started/completed, etc. I did have a look at Horde but this is not what I am looking for. I do

Re: project management software for freebsd?

2007-10-27 Thread Bahman M.
On 2007-10-27 Bahman M. wrote: On 2007-10-27 zbigniew szalbot wrote: I am looking for recommendation of software which could be installed from ports and which would help us register new ideas, be able to see if they have been started/completed, etc. I did have a look at Horde but this

Re: Portupgrade used to be fun!!!

2007-10-27 Thread RW
On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 10:38:39 -0500 Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 00:12:49 -0400 E. J. Cerejo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not anymore! Every time I cvsup my ports tree and I see all of those ports that need to be updated my belly aches and that's because portupgrade

Re: Portupgrade used to be fun!!!

2007-10-27 Thread James
Not anymore! Every time I cvsup my ports tree and I see all of those ports that need to be updated my belly aches and that's because portupgrade doesn't work the way it used to work. It is not fun any more! Always an issue, either a port conflicts with another port or it fails

Re: hardware not recognized

2007-10-27 Thread Robert Huff
Erik Trulsson writes: Recently, I replaced the NICs on a machine (old card was slow and throwing errors). Per good reviews, I went with Intel. However: the card is not recognized on boot, and I get: If I explicitly load if_em via loader.conf, everything's fine. Do you

Re: can't upgrade - catch-22

2007-10-27 Thread Keith Seyffarth
Make sure your ports tree is 100% up to date. Got it, I think. Ran cvsup again, got a bunch of stuff... Uninstall portupgrade all it's dependencies. Have done, as far as I can tell. cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portupgrade make install clean Generates the same error mentioned previously -

Re: hardware not recognized

2007-10-27 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 01:26:57PM -0400, Robert Huff wrote: Erik Trulsson writes: Recently, I replaced the NICs on a machine (old card was slow and throwing errors). Per good reviews, I went with Intel. However: the card is not recognized on boot, and I get: If I

Atheros wireless

2007-10-27 Thread Necati Demir
Hi, As a 6 year linux user, i am new to freebsd. :) In my laptop i have a atheros wireless card. To use it, i compiled modules; # cd /sys/modules/ath # make; make load # cd /sys/modules/ath_hal # make; make load # cd /sys/modules/ath_rate_sample # make; make load # cd /sys/modules/wlan #

Re: Atheros wireless

2007-10-27 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 08:51:20PM +0300, Necati Demir wrote: Hi, As a 6 year linux user, i am new to freebsd. :) In my laptop i have a atheros wireless card. To use it, i compiled modules; # cd /sys/modules/ath # make; make load # cd /sys/modules/ath_hal # make; make load # cd

Re: Now can't get past the copyright info. What next?

2007-10-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
W. D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've got a FreeBSD 4.9 Samba file server that boots but hangs after the Regents of the University of California text. Is there some way to fix this? Boot from a CD? Put the hard drive in another computer? Those would be good things to try.

Re: Atheros wireless

2007-10-27 Thread Necati Demir
On 27/10/2007, Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 08:51:20PM +0300, Necati Demir wrote: Hi, As a 6 year linux user, i am new to freebsd. :) In my laptop i have a atheros wireless card. To use it, i compiled modules; # cd /sys/modules/ath # make; make

Re: Atheros wireless

2007-10-27 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 11:31:12PM +0300, Necati Demir wrote: On 27/10/2007, Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 08:51:20PM +0300, Necati Demir wrote: Hi, As a 6 year linux user, i am new to freebsd. :) In my laptop i have a atheros wireless card. To use

LaTeX oder teTeX

2007-10-27 Thread Christian Walther
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, a few years ago I got a good introduction to TeX, but for some reason stopped using it. Now I want to pick up where I left. I found LaTeX and teTeX in ports, so I wonder what the best tex distribution is. According to the teTeX website there

Re: pkgdb -Ff and autoconf question...how do I respond?

2007-10-27 Thread John Murphy
I have a similar problem with gnu-automake, it seems to be required by the kde meta port: # pkg_info | grep kde-3 kde-3.5.7 The meta-port for KDE kdeartwork-xscreensaver-kde-3.5.7 Support for xscreensaver blankers in KDE # pkg_info | grep gnu-aut gnu-automake-1.10 GNU

Re: Portupgrade used to be fun!!!

2007-10-27 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 10:38:39AM -0500, Chris wrote: E. J. Cerejo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not anymore! Every time I cvsup my ports tree and I see all of those ports that need to be updated my belly aches and that's because portupgrade doesn't work the way it used to work. It is not

Re: LaTeX oder teTeX

2007-10-27 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 11:51:25PM +, Christian Walther wrote: a few years ago I got a good introduction to TeX, but for some reason stopped using it. Now I want to pick up where I left. I found LaTeX and teTeX in ports, so I wonder what the best tex distribution is. According to the

Name resolution

2007-10-27 Thread jekillen
Hello: I have been trying to tame the use of the ports mechanisms. I set up a system with a static ip connection to the internet and when I run: pkg_add -r csup-without-gui (verbatim from the freebsd handbook I downloaded just a few days ago) I get this: Error: FTP Unable to get

Re: Portupgrade used to be fun!!!

2007-10-27 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 05:34:03PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: I have used (and still do) both flavors of the above and I have to tell y, updating the installed apps is as easy as apt-get update ot yum update/upgrade. . . . except when they break something. It's a lot easier to fix broken

Re: Name resolution

2007-10-27 Thread RW
On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 16:42:02 -0700 jekillen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello: I have been trying to tame the use of the ports mechanisms. I set up a system with a static ip connection to the internet and when I run: pkg_add -r csup-without-gui (verbatim from the freebsd handbook I

Re: evil idea

2007-10-27 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-10-26 23:34, Astrodog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/26/07, Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running amd64 8-CURRENT and there are a few i386 only ports that I absolutely must have installed and at the same time since I have 4 GB of RAM all kinds of bizarreness is created

Re: can't upgrade - catch-22

2007-10-27 Thread Keith Seyffarth
Why don't you just manually remove Xorg and then install it with portinstall? ie. pkg_delete -f xorg\* That'll remove all packages that start with the characters xorg. Install the newer version of Xorg then upgrade portupgrade, then upgrade the packages that depended on xorg. Well, now

Re: Name resolution

2007-10-27 Thread jekillen
On Oct 27, 2007, at 4:54 PM, RW wrote: On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 16:42:02 -0700 jekillen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello: I have been trying to tame the use of the ports mechanisms. I set up a system with a static ip connection to the internet and when I run: pkg_add -r csup-without-gui (verbatim

Re: LaTeX oder teTeX

2007-10-27 Thread Predrag Punosevac
Roland Smith wrote: On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 11:51:25PM +, Christian Walther wrote: a few years ago I got a good introduction to TeX, but for some reason stopped using it. Now I want to pick up where I left. I found LaTeX and teTeX in ports, so I wonder what the best tex distribution is.

Re: DVD distribution

2007-10-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 01:47:20AM +0200, Michel Ali wrote: Hi, I’m an IT manager. I am just wondering why you do not have a DVD distribution. [I know about workarounds] Could you do something about that, it would be really helpful and handy? FreeBSD per se does not have any

Re: evil idea

2007-10-27 Thread mv
Hello, Would installing Freebsd i386 within a jail on an amd64 host solve his problem? I have been running amd64 since it was first released and am quite pleased with its performance and stability. However, as a desktop there are still a number of programs that are only available on i386

Re: evil idea

2007-10-27 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
mv wrote: Hello, Would installing Freebsd i386 within a jail on an amd64 host solve his problem? I have been running amd64 since it was first released and am quite pleased with its performance and stability. However, as a desktop there are still a number of programs that are only

Re: DVD distribution

2007-10-27 Thread Predrag Punosevac
Jerry McAllister wrote: On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 01:47:20AM +0200, Michel Ali wrote: Hi, I’m an IT manager. I am just wondering why you do not have a DVD distribution. [I know about workarounds] Could you do something about that, it would be really helpful and handy? FreeBSD per se

Re: evil idea

2007-10-27 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
What would be ideal is if you can tell the OS to treat one CPU as a virtual machine and run that inside a jail and/or qemu wrapper (wrapper in that it looks like it is a seperate [emulated] machine to the host OS but in reality it is just running on partioned CPU and memory on the same machine)

Re: DVD distribution

2007-10-27 Thread Chris
On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 19:19:01 -0700 Predrag Punosevac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jerry McAllister wrote: On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 01:47:20AM +0200, Michel Ali wrote: Hi, I’m an IT manager. I am just wondering why you do not have a DVD distribution. [I know about workarounds]

Re: DVD distribution

2007-10-27 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
Actually FreeBSD has DVD distribution. I think, I saw on the internet that somebody in Germany was selling FreeBSD DVDs. There are lots of Germans on this mailing list so they might give you better answer. Localized or allow user localization? -- Aryeh M. Friedman FloSoft Systems

Re: can't upgrade - catch-22

2007-10-27 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Saturday 27 October 2007, Keith Seyffarth said: Why don't you just manually remove Xorg and then install it with portinstall? ie. pkg_delete -f xorg\* That'll remove all packages that start with the characters xorg. Install the newer version of Xorg then upgrade portupgrade, then

Re: evil idea

2007-10-27 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-10-27 21:49, mv [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/26/07, Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running amd64 8-CURRENT and there are a few i386 only ports that I absolutely must have installed and at the same time since I have 4 GB of RAM all kinds of bizarreness is created

Re: Name resolution

2007-10-27 Thread James
thank you; your right it is cvsup, but the handbook indicates that I could use csup in place of cvsup in the command line on v6.2 and up. But that does not seem to effect the resolver issue (unless I am mistaken here and the resolver is actually working and it is just the reference) Jeff

Re: Panic With Large Network Copy

2007-10-27 Thread Scott Willson
On Jun 4, 2007, at 10:49 AM, Scott Willson wrote: On May 29, 2007, at 4:26 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 03:36:49PM -0700, Scott Willson wrote: I am seeing hard (often no core dump) crashes on a new AMD64 box running 6.2 RELEASE. When I try to rsync 10+ GB of backup

The FreeBSD Diary: 2007-10-07 - 2007-10-27

2007-10-27 Thread Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the

Re: project management software for freebsd?

2007-10-27 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Sat, 27 Oct 2007, zbigniew szalbot wrote: Hello, I am looking for recommendation of software which could be installed from ports and which would help us register new ideas, be able to see if they have been started/completed, etc. I did have a look at Horde but this is not what I am